QUESTIONS 51 - 60

(Q 51-57- Reading Comprehension)

**THESE have been heady days for Chen Sisi, star of a song-and-dance group run by China’s nuclear-missile corps. For weeks her ballad “Chinese dream” has been topping the folk-song charts. She has performed it on state television against video backdrops of bullet trains; a jet taking off from China’s newly launched aircraft-carrier and bucolic scenery. More than 1.1m fans follow her micro blog, where she tweets about the Chinese dream.

Ms. Chen is playing her part in a barrage of dream-themed propaganda unleashed by the Communist Party. Schools have been organizing Chinese-dream speaking competitions. Some have put up “dream walls” on which students can stick notes describing their visions of the future. Party officials have selected model dreamers to tour workplaces and inspire others with their achievements. Academics are being encouraged to offer “Chinese dream” research proposals. Newspapers refer to it more and more. In December state media and government researchers, purportedly on the basis of studies of its usage, declared “dream” the Chinese character of the year for 2012.

It was, however, one very specific usage just before that December publication which set the country dreaming. On November 29th, two weeks after his appointment as the party’s general secretary and military commander-in-chief, Xi Jinping visited the grandiose National Museum next to Tiananmen Square. Flanked by six dour-looking, dark-clad colleagues from the Politburo’s standing committee, Mr. Xi told a gaggle of press and museum workers that the “greatest Chinese dream” was the “great revival of the Chinese nation”.

 

51) Which of the following words (that is mentioned in the above passage) means: SERENADE?

       a) Ditty   b) barrage   c) ballad    d) song    e) gaggle

 

52) Which of the following words (that is mentioned in the above passage) means: ARCADIAN?

     a) Rustic   b) Bucolic   c) barrage   d) ballad   e) voluptuous

 

53) Pick Out a word from the passage which means the same as the word (is closest in the meaning): COVEY.

    a) Gaggle   b) dreamers   c) revival   d) propaganda e) scenery

 

54) Pick Out a word from the passage which is opposite in meaning to the word: MODERATE.

   a) Topping b) grandiose c) Communist d) greatest e) a,d.  

 

55) According to the passage why have the days for Chen Sisi been heady?

     a) More than 1.1m fans follow her micro blog.

     b) Her ballad “Chinese dream” has been topping the folk-song charts.

     c) She has been busy patronizing the Chinese Dream.

     d) She has performed on state television against video backdrops.

     e) The Chinese Government is helping her gain popularity.

 

 56) What is the tone of this passage?

      a) Factual   b) Farcical   c) sarcastic   d) descriptive e) Analytical

 

57)  What according to the passage set the country dreaming?

     a) Specific Usage of the word Chinese dream by Chinese Premiere.

     b) Appointment of a new Chinese premiere.

     c) Referring Chinese dream to great revival of the Chinese nation.

     d) Xi Jinping visited the grandiose National Museum.

     e) a and c

 

58) Choose the Correct sequence that forms a logically coherent Paragraph.

A) Contact with prisoners begins while they are still inside.

B) The Peterborough project is undeniably impressive.

C) Volunteers provide an additional level of support to help them with practicalities such as job training.

D) It is run by an umbrella group called the One Service, which brings together a number of different charitable organizations with different areas of expertise, from mental health to support services for the families of prisoners.

E) Ex-prisoners are assigned case workers, some of them ex-offenders themselves, to look after them

F) Those who opt in (the vast majority do) are met at the gates upon release so that basic issues such as the provision of housing are properly addressed: otherwise, some prisoners reoffend immediately in order to ensure they have accommodation of some sort.

a)BDAFEC  b) BDFEAC  c) BDACFE   d) BDFACE   d) DBCAFE  e) DCFBAE

 

59) Find the Odd One Out:

   a) Ducat b) Carte Blanche   c) subpoena d) shingle e) severance

60) Find the Odd One Out:

   a) Rodule  b) birch   c) scepter d) ingot e) bigot

 

** The Above Passage has been taken from THE ECONOMIST magazine for Educational Purposes. The questions have been ingeniously developed. 

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